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• Improv Everywhere: Star Wars Subway Car

  Our prankster pals at Improv Everywhere recreated the Princess Leia/Darth Vader scene on a New York City subway car. "Star Wars Subway Car"

  • Food Court Musical, by Improv Everywhere
  • Improv Everywhere: mass twins on subway
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  • Improv Everywhere: No Pants! Subway Ride

  
  

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• British Empire presents new kite to Darth Vader
  

  Britain's Ministry of Defense announced this unmanned fighter jet today, the Tiranus. Named for the Celtic god of bad-assery, it looks markedly more sinister than America's one, itself revealed in May. There's something about that blue-gray hangar ... it reminds me of something.

  Photo: Sienar Fleet Systems.

  MoD lifts lid on unmanned combat plane prototype [BBC]

  
  

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• Trek in the Park: Classic Star Trek episodes performed outdoors in PDX
  

  Shawna sez, "An amazingly awesome small theater group in Portland, OR called Atomic Arts is about to launch its second season/episode of Trek in the Park -- a live action recreation of a classic Star Trek episode from start to finish, free and open to the public and staged at Woodlawn Park. The group launched Trek last summer with weekend performances of the bizarre episode 'Amok Time', and it was insanely awesome! Local band Fast Computers provides the live soundtrack (including a great rendition of the theme song to get things off to a spacey start), and the entire staging, from the actors to the live-on-set sound effect, is just . . . fascinating. And hilarious."

  Atomic Arts: Trek in the Park

  (Thanks, Shawna!)

  • Pac-Man and Star Trek cufflinks
  • Los Angeles: Birdwatching with Star Trek stars
  • Star Trek stop-motion fanimation from mid '70s
  • Sugar Smacks + Spock
  • Alternate Star Trek pilot to be released
  • Star Trek Inspired Corset
  • Star Trek cake
  • Bad Star Trek porn, as if there were any other kind.

  
  

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• Two-tone, 1937 Wrigley's ad
  

  Love this dramatic, two-tone Wrigley's gum ad from 1937.

  1937 Wrigley's Double Mint Chewing Gum

  
  

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• Two-tone, 1937 Wrigley's ad
  

  Love this dramatic, two-tone Wrigley's gum ad from 1937.

  1937 Wrigley's Double Mint Chewing Gum

  
  

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• Required Viewing

  I didn't watch this when it first went up but... shit... I'm going out on a limb and declaring it required viewing 2.2 million views later:

  That is fucking funny. And the kids who made it? A Best Buy employee who is probably going to lose his job. Says Gizmodo:

  The iPhone 4 vs. HTC EVO video making the rounds has gotten 1.7 million views, but when Best Buy found out it was their employee that made the video, they weren't so much amused as angry. Corporate asked them to take the video down, but the employee Brian Maupin declined, saying that it didn't mention Best Buy anywhere. (It also didn't mention Best Buy in the description either.) But Best Buy suspended him, and now might be fired, claims NBC Action News.

  Hey Best Buy guy. Email us. You don't need to work at Best Buy when you can make funny stuff like this for the internet.

  Remember when Apple was beloved?

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• Steampunk monkey coloring book
  

  Chet sez, "This coloring book of steampunk and evil Victorian simians by Chet Phillips awaits your artistic endeavors. Enjoy hours of creative activity before the inevitable domination of technologically advanced apes and monkeys procure our world."

  Steampunk, monkeys, and coloring?! Just add milk and cookies and a big rug to lie on your tummy while you work and that's a party!

  Monkey Color! Coloring Book

  • Steampunk monkey cigarette card set
  • Just look at this awesome steampunk bananagun.
  • 8 reasons to fear Steampunk
  • Steampunk R2-D2 tee (steampunk! steampunk! steampunk!)
  • Mark Stafford's Amazing Steampunk Lego Naboo Fighter ...
  • Junk steampunk sculptures

  
  

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• Cisco Intern Poised to Become Viral Rap Star [VIDEO]

  A rather endearing video has been making the Internet rounds of late — a vid featuring the rap stylings of Cisco Systems intern Greg Justice, a.k.a. “The World’s Most Interesting Intern.”

  After seeing Justice’s rap on a few other blogs, we hit him up via Twitter to ask what the deal was. Apparently, the 21-year-old Stanford University student is currently working with Cisco’s Communications department to “harness social media to amplify Cisco’s awesomeness.” He was given the opportunity to drop beats on the company blog on a regular basis after his boss heard him rapping in his cubicle. Justice isn’t a stranger to music, either. “I was the frontman for a 5-piece Stanford hip-hop/rock band that failed miserably,” he explains. “More importantly, I grew up listening to the Lion King soundtrack on repeat.”

  Justice plans to post a new video on the company blog every week for the next 10 weeks. His goal for the endeavor? “On the one hand, I’d like to pitch exciting products such as the Cisco Catalyst 4948E Ethernet Switch and Flip Video,” he says. “But, truthfully, I just want to make it on The Colbert Report.”

  Kidding aside, we think this is a really great way for Cisco to connect with its customers — a way that’s much kinder to its junior staffers than that whole David on Demand/Leo Burnett deal (last time we checked the dude was being forced to get Twitter handle tattoos). What do you think of major companies like Cisco letting loose with a bit of viral inanity? Let us know.

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• This Picture Was Taken 24 Miles In the Air With A Crappy Camera Attached To A Balloon [Photography]
  
  
  

  What do you get when you combine a styrofoam box, duct tape, orange paint, a weather balloon, and 2 old Canon cameras? Apparently, images that look like they're from NASA. More »

  
  
  
  Photography - Camera - Arts - Equipment and Services - Canon

  

  

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• Doctor Who vs Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

  Andrew Orton's "Doctor Who: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Daleks (The Peter Jones-y Edit)" mashes up the BBC Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy classic TV series with a Tom "the best Doctor Who" Baker encounter with the Daleks.

  Mike Richards adds, "An utterly magnificent addition to the only reference book anyone needs. Animated in the same style as the 1980s BBC TV adaptation with a spookily accurate VoiceOver in the style of the late Peter Jones."

  The Hitchhiker's Guide Reminds You Not to Panic if You Meet a Dalek

  (Thanks, Mike!)

  • Douglas Adams's 1990 BBC doc on hypertext, with Tom Baker - Boing ...
  • Dr. Who's "regeneration" meant to be like bad acid trip
  • Kids' Dalek video
  • Retro: Doctor Who advertises Prime Computer
  • BBC has Infocom's Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
  • RIP Geoffrey Perkins of Hitchhikers' Guide and Father Ted - Boing ...
  • Don't Panic: DIY portable Wikipedia as Hitchhiker's Guide to the ...

  
  

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• A photo a day, until he died... (PICS)
  Jamie Livingston chronicled nearly every single day of his life in Polaroids, from 1979 to 1997, until he passed away from illness. Poignant and moving.

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• The Police Academy Guy's Expansive Oral History of Typewriters [Sound Effects]
  
  
  

  If you're curious what the crazy sound effects guy from the Police Academy movies has been up to lately, here's your answer: narrating—if that's the right word—115 years of typewriter history with, well, crazy sound effects. More »

  
  
  
  Police Academy - Arts - Typewriter - Recreation - Antiques

  

  

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• Law.gov: liberating the American legal code
  Rogue archivist Carl Malamud sez,

  We're setting off some pretty fireworks next week in Washington, D.C. and I wanted to invite people to come watch. Since January, Public.Resource.Org has been organizing Law.Gov workshops all around the country with the help of a stellar cast of co-convenors. Over 500 people have participated in these workshops. The idea of Law.Gov is that government needs to do a much better job of making primary legal materials available. Code is law, law is code, and we think America's operating system ought to be open source.

  Next week is the conclusion of the Law.Gov workshops and we're going out with a bang. On Tuesday, John Podesta will be hosting us at the Center for American Progress and the whole thing will be streamed live on the net. There is a really stellar cast of participants including a half-dozen senior administration officials and some well-known net names like Vint Cerf and Tim O'Reilly. Then, on Thursday and Friday, Larry Lessig and John Palfry are hosting us at Harvard for a 2-day wrapup.

  Access to the Raw Materials of Our Democracy

  (Thanks, Carl!)

  • NYT on Carl Malamud's International Amateur Scanning League ...
  • Yes We Scan! Carl Malamud for Public Printer of the USA
  • Carl Malamud, rogue archivist, in Wired
  • Watch America's public domain video treasures, rescue the public ...
  • Malamud's "By the People" - stirring history of the Government ...
  • RECAP, a Firefox plugin that frees US caselaw one page at a time ...
  • Public Resource demands the source code to America's operating ...
  • CSPAN embraces freely copyable video

  
  

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• “Tourist Lane” Stunt Delights and Confuses New York City [VIDEO]
  

  Yesterday, we revealed at the Mashable Media Summit that Improv Everywhere, along with “Self-Appointed City Planner” Jeff Greenspan, were behind that awesome “Tourist Lane” stunt here in New York City. Now, we’ve got a video depicting the hilarity said lane caused.

  The “Tourist Lane” (a painted creation located on 5th Avenue and 22nd Street in NYC) spread across the web — from a single photo posted to a blogger’s Tumblr (with no prodding from Improv Everywhere founder Charlie Todd or Greenspan) to major media outlets.

  As you can see in the video, it also caused much confusion and delight among tourists and native New Yorkers alike. Check out Improv Everywhere’s site for complete coverage of the prank. What other cities do you think could use a tourist lane?

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• Why, no, I am not one bit afraid of these swarming, flying robotic drones

  Robotics developers at the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich's Institute for Dynamic Systems and Control have built autonomous robots that drive, dock with their peers on the ground, then fly into the air in coordinated swarms....all of this without human direction. In fact, the vehicles can drive around on the ground as individual, autonomous units, but "it is not until they assemble that they are able to fly," according to the researchers:

  These modules are organized as distributed computational units with minimal sensory input. This is a complex system that is rich in dynamics with much room to explore various strategies of distributed estimation and control.

  More about the little buggers here, on the researchers' project website.

  Video: Distributed Flight Array (YouTube video from The Institute for Dynamic Systems and Control)

  Report on the project here, at Wired Danger Room.

  How it all works, in an infographic that follows...

  

  
  

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